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Old 04-March-2005, 03:56 PM
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http://ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/misc/destroy.html


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If total human genocide is your ultimate goal, you are reading the wrong document. There are far more efficient ways of doing this, many which are available and feasible RIGHT NOW. Nor is this a guide for those wanting to annihilate everything from single-celled life upwards, render Earth uninhabitable or simply conquer it. These are trivial goals in comparison.

This is a guide for those who do not want the Earth to be there anymore.
its a fairly amusing site devoted to how difficult it is to actually remove a planet.

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Ahh....I just adore "Fluffy"! He can come and "destroy" my world anytime!
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Fluffy had been denied playtime by the cat. (A.K.A. He wanted to play, and Marla was having none of it, and proceeded to chase him out of the room)

I can just see the future fights between them now.
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No doubt named for Harry Potter's fluffy, destroyer of young wizards
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No doubt named for Harry Potter's fluffy, destroyer of young wizards
Actually he was named that because when he was born, he was no more than a big ball of fur. :wink:

Though the other analogy fits quite well.
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...he was named that because when he was born, he was no more than a big ball of fur.
What is he now?
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...he was named that because when he was born, he was no more than a big ball of fur.
What is he now?
A really big ball of fur.
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...he was named that because when he was born, he was no more than a big ball of fur.
What is he now?
A really big ball of fur.
With 4 furry stubs that pass as legs, a smaller ball of fur for a head which he uses to eat WAY to much puppy chow.
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Destroy the Earth? Time to warm up the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
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Would You like to destroy the earth?
Depends...Do I get to escape? Can I choose who gets left behind (yes, I have a list)?
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Depends...Do I get to escape? Can I choose who gets left behind (yes, I have a list)?
Presumably, yes:
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Assuming, of course, that you and whatever trusted advisors you will allow to side with you do not intend to "go down with the ship", it is particularly advisable to make plans for alternate living arrangements before you embark on a course of action which may result in the destruction of the Earth.
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Actually he was named that because when he was born, he was no more than a big ball of fur. :wink:

Though the other analogy fits quite well.
Similar to how our cat got his name. Out of the litter, one had the most fur and seemed almost round. So he was dubbed (*not by me*) "Puffball" - "Puff" for short. He is a friendly enough cat, but he is now long and thin with medium length fur and moves like a panther on the prowl. It fits about as well as the name "Kitty" did with the Addams' family pet lion. If it weren't for the fact that the cat knows and responds to his name, we would have changed it.
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When I was a kid there was a popular song, Puff, The Magic Dragon. I guess if a dragon can be named "Puff" then why not a panther-like domestic feline? Seems fine to me!
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When I was a kid there was a popular song, Puff, The Magic Dragon. I guess if a dragon can be named "Puff" then why not a panther-like domestic feline? Seems fine to me!
Uh, from what I've been told, Puff wasn't any dragon.
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That guy's way off. Even I know that you'd need a lot more than 12 kilograms of antimatter to do significant damage to the planet. You'd need something like a hundred million tons of the stuff just to do our moon.
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ToSeeked by a couple of months.
Why is being scooped called "ToSeeked"?


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Why is being scooped called "ToSeeked"?
Because the poster "ToSeek" usually posts news and other things well before other people do...he's rather prolific.

Hence when some person posts something that has already been posted, they've been "ToSeeked", i.e. beaten to the story.
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